Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 00:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: S3 Server dumps core Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950708003542.6124B-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199507072200.AAA15935@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Howard Lew wrote:
> >
> > I'm using 2.0.5-Snap 6/22, and the S3 still dumps core if and only if I
> > do this:
> >
> > 1) Switch from xdm to a text screen.
> > 2) Login as root. It immediately dumps core after I login as root.
> > If I login as someone else, it doesn't dump core unless I use su to
> > get to root. After it dumps core, it flips to the graphics screen, and
> > the X server starts up again.
>
> Can you send us root's .cshrc and .login file?
Here it is.... I think it is the stock .cshrc and .login that comes with
the 2.0.5-6/22-snap.
.cshrc
--------
paradise: {7} more .cshrc
# $Id: dot.cshrc,v 1.12 1994/10/27 05:26:59 phk Exp $
#
alias mail Mail
set history=1000
set savehist=1000
set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin)
# directory stuff: cdpath/cd/back
# set cdpath=(/sys/{i386,}
/usr/src/{bin,sbin,usr.{bin,sbin},lib,libexec,share,
ontrib,etc,games,gnu,include,})
alias cd 'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*'
alias h history
alias j jobs -l
alias ll ls -lg
alias ls ls -g -k
alias back 'set back=$old; set old=$cwd; cd $back; unset back; dirs'
alias z suspend
alias x exit
alias pd pushd
alias pd2 pushd +2
alias pd3 pushd +3
alias pd4 pushd +4
alias tset 'set noglob histchars=""; eval `\tset -s \!*`; unset
noglob his
chars'
if ($?prompt) then
set prompt="`hostname -s`# "
set filec
endif
setenv BLOCKSIZE K
---------
paradise: {8} more .login
# $Id: dot.login,v 1.6 1994/09/16 04:20:13 rgrimes Exp $
#
tset -Q \?$TERM
stty crt erase ^H
umask 2
echo "Don't login as root, use su"
>
> > One other problem.... In the login window, Xconsole sometimes appears and
> > then closes by itself. I have seen this happen on a 386-40, and also
> > this 486-100.
>
> I've also seen this, in particular for the first time xdm is being
> started after a system boot. Seems to be related to the permissions
> of the console device or something else. Benign.
I don't know, but it's odd... It is almost like a timing problem, and is
kind of random too... Sometimes xdm starts up with the xconsole okay.
Sometimes it starts it up, and then closes the window. This is even true
from a cold reset.
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